First Edition. "The story of the eighteen months that VandenBroeck spent in daily contact with the remarkable French philosopher, hermeticist, and Egyptologist, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887–1961). It provides a passionately felt, personal, and dramatic introduction to the startling world of this contemporary alchemist"—the dust jacket. First edition (first.....

First Edition. A reassessment of Freud and psychoanalysis, ephasizing the influence of Darwin's theory of evolution. 612 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould, the noted evolutionist, in the month of publication: "To Steve, a true renaissance man and an.....

The 42nd printing and the first for 1951. Duncan Hines is remembered for the cake mix that bears his name, but the reason for the cake mix is that he was the most famous restaurant critic in American in the 1940s and 1950s. He favored good, solid American food (even.....

An issue of a periodical published by men in the Civilian Public Service (CPS), the work camp program for conscientious objectors during the Second World War. This journal was put out by the Pacifist Information Center at CPS 51 in Fort Steilacoom, which happened to be a mental hospital (the.....

This is a rare pair of photographs of Chinese immigrants, a man and a woman, living in or near Helena, Montana, in the late 1860s. In both pictures, the subjects are seated on a chair with their arm on a draped table. Both are wearing Chinese clothing. The man has.....

Two issues, published together. La jícara (the gourd) was a journal designed and printed by the members of Taller Leñateros, a Mayan book-arts collective in Chiapas founded by the American-born Mexican poet Ambar Past. Issue 1: 30 pages in a double-sided accordion-fold structure; about 80 by 8-1/2 inches. Issue 7: Five.....

The contents of this issue are poetry and prose from Chiapan writers along with a serigraphed facsimile of the title page and several text pages reproducing an 1882 edition of the Doctrina cristiana in Zapotec Nexitza. The book is illustrated throughout with serigraphs, many full page. As with many issues.....

The contents of this issue are poetry and prose from Chiapan writers. The book is illustrated throughout with serigraphs, including a poem in two colors that is printed in the lower margin of one side. According to the colophon, various organic materials were used to produce the colors in this.....